Ya know, we always have the Best Of for games or most anticipated for games, but we never do anything for music. I know that MS is a big audiophile like myself so I thought it would be cool to see what people thought were the best albums of 2015. So here we are! Hopefully this will bring bands/albums to the forefront for others to check out that might not have looked at those bands/albums before.

So!....what were your favorite/best albums of 2015?

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I'm not really one for bands as a whole, bar a few exceptions which I regale MS with every so often. So no albums from me, but I can share a few songs for sure. I'll try and cover a bunch of bases. These aren't necessarily all released in 2015 (most in 2014 actually), but I found them all in 2015 - because otherwise I'd have nothing to post

Here's the point where no-one likes any of it because I have weird and random tastes

Black Veil Brides - Heart of Fire

Panic at the Disco - Emperor's New Clothes

Postmodern Jukebox - Stacy's Mom (Cover)

Heaven's Basement - Welcome Home

Icon For Hire - Iodine

Slash - World on Fire

Mejibray - Divergence

And can I class instrumentals in here too? If so, this is probably my favourite instrumental piece of 2015...

"Perhaps this is what I have always wished for since that day. The loss and destruction of all. That's right, one must destroy before creating. In that case, if my conscience becomes a hindrance to me, then I will simply erase it. I have no other choice but to move forward....therefore!" - Lelouch vi Britannia/Zero, Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch

Give The Book of Souls a listen if you haven't, Anny. Very solid album & one you may like as well

Surprised to see no Burning Bridges from you but I'll agree that it's not their best effort, then again it wasn't their new album, but released to satisfy their previous record contract before they moved on. There are still some fantastic tracks on there (my favs being; A Teardrop To The Sea, We Don't Run, Who Would You Die For & Fingerprints as I linked) but whilst there isn't a track I particularly dislike, I'd say the rest are mostly throwaways. Roll on spring for the new album though, and this tour which they seem to be taking forever to announce!

Incidentally, Adele picked up the album of the year award at the Brits last night (along with 3 other awards heh). Not surprising given the huge amount of success she's been having with it but nice to see & definitely well deserved.

"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,The lone and level sands stretch far away.

We saw her last night & she was nothing short of phenomenal. She comes across as such a lovely lass too, really down to earth with lots of funny banter between songs, and that voice... Mesmerising.

Going to drop these in here since they're relevant to the thread, just incase anyone is interested!

Tickets were like gold dust but if she ever comes your way, try & see if you can get hold of some tickets. Just make sure you're ready the second they go on sale as even then you're not guaranteed to get any. Trust me. She was amazing though

"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,The lone and level sands stretch far away.

She's got a nice voice but I've never really gone for Adele...I think I get tired of her quickly because she's on the radio constantly

She is supremely talented though, and I'm really glad you had a good night dude Will take a look at some of those videos tonight!

"Perhaps this is what I have always wished for since that day. The loss and destruction of all. That's right, one must destroy before creating. In that case, if my conscience becomes a hindrance to me, then I will simply erase it. I have no other choice but to move forward....therefore!" - Lelouch vi Britannia/Zero, Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch

Anubis wrote:She's got a nice voice but I've never really gone for Adele...I think I get tired of her quickly because she's on the radio constantly

Yeah, I don't listen to the radio very often myself but I imagine it's just the singles they're playing (Hello & When We Were Young) rather than the rest of the 25 album? I'd probably get tired of them too if I was hearing the same 2 songs all the time lol

Video highlights would probably be Set Fire to the Rain & Rolling in the Deep for their effects (Skyfall too if you're a Bond fan ofc). And yes, that was real water!

This is the confetti you can see in the Rolling in the Deep video btw:Caught a few pieces to bring home

(Jeff Lynne's ELO in 4 weeks. Will post some vids of that as well since he was on my list above too!)

"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,The lone and level sands stretch far away.

M.Steiner wrote:(Jeff Lynne's ELO in 4 weeks. Will post some vids of that as well since he was on my list above too!)

As promised, for anyone interested:

Really fantastic show but one can't expect any less from one of Britain's greatest songwriters & music producers imo. Pretty special too since it's been such a loooong ass time since he last did a proper tour & tickets sold out within minutes.

Setlist:

1. Tightrope

2. Evil Woman

3. Showdown

4. All Over the World

5. When I was a Boy

6. Livin' Thing

7. Ain't it a Drag

8. Can't Get It Out of My Head

9. Rockaria!

10. When the Night Comes

11. Secret Messages

12. Steppin' Out

13. Shine a Little Love

14. Wild West Hero

15. Telephone Line

16. Turn to Stone

17. Don't Bring Me Down

18. Sweet Talkin' Woman

19. Mr. Blue SkyEncore

20. Roll Over Beethoven

My only disappointment was that he didn't include a Traveling Wilburys track in the setlist like he did at Hyde Park (for which I have the blu-ray of & they played Handle with Care <3). Brilliant otherwise & only a small niggle really!

The Feeling opened for them too who were a nice surprise! No vids of my own (I was intending on taking a couple but it was kinda hard with the arena filling up) but here's one from someone else:

They were very good! It's actually the second time I've seen those guys as they opened for Bon Jovi on the UK leg of their Lost Highway tour in 2008 too.

2 down, 6 to go

Adele

Jeff Lynne's ELO

Noel Gallagher

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

Coldplay

Neil Young

The Four Tops & The Temptations

Aussie Floyd

Noel Gallagher (27th April) & Coldplay (4th June) were on my 2015 list too, any interest for those once I've seen em, can post too if so? My Adele videos have fast become some of my most popular vids on YouTube, over 100,000 views for Water Under The Bridge already. Wasn't expecting that lol

"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,The lone and level sands stretch far away.

"Perhaps this is what I have always wished for since that day. The loss and destruction of all. That's right, one must destroy before creating. In that case, if my conscience becomes a hindrance to me, then I will simply erase it. I have no other choice but to move forward....therefore!" - Lelouch vi Britannia/Zero, Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch